by lesley | May 19, 2009 | Marketing, Readability, Website copy
1. Headline – needs to be in prime real estate and bigger than anything else to get attention. 2. Simple, easy to use navigation – easy to find, consistent, no overwhelm, no guesswork! 3. Don’t underestimate the power of using the text as hyperlinks...
by lesley | May 8, 2009 | Headlines, Press & Media, Readability, Website copy
You’re probably already guessing at lots of things your website should do – and you’re probably right for most of them, but these are my absolute essentials: # One – have a clear purpose Most people will say that their website is to make sales...
by lesley | Apr 28, 2009 | Website copy
Have ever watched someone waiting for a web page to download? Do they sit calmly or are their fingers tapping impatiently and a certain amount of muttering and sighing going on if it doesn’t snap onto the screen instantly? It’s amazing when you think that...
by lesley | Apr 27, 2009 | Marketing, Readability, Website copy
I love words – however, as George Bernard Shaw famously said ‘You must learn to murder your children’! Writing lots of lovely words about your company doesn’t work for the reader on the web. When someone has arrived at your website they are...
by lesley | Apr 14, 2009 | Readability, Website copy
I’ve talked about headlines and how important they are – then the subject of subheaders came up. So what is a subheader? It’s not a byline – that’s the ‘by Joe Bloggs’ bit that tells you who wrote it. It’s not a...
